serialize a list of object

Question

hi, i want to serialize an objects to xml file of a Departement contain a list of Employees.this is my code C# which i putted:

public class Department
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public List<Employee> Employees { get; set; }
    public Department()
    {
        Employees = new List<Employee>();
    }
}

public class Employee
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public Employee() { }
    public Employee(string name)
    {
        Name = name;
    }
}

Department dept = new Department();
dept.Name = "IT";
dept.Employees.Add(new Employee("Bob"));
dept.Employees.Add(new Employee("Jim"));
dept.Employees.Add(new Employee("Mel"));
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(dept.GetType());
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(@"d:\Department.xml"))
{
    serializer.Serialize(writer, dept);
}

this code generate succefully a file xml like this:

<Department>
  <Name>IT</Name>
  <Employees>
    <Employee>
      <Name>Bob</Name>
    </Employee>
    <Employee>
      <Name>Jim</Name>
    </Employee>
    <Employee>
      <Name>Mel</Name>
    </Employee>
  </Employees>
</Department>

but my goal is to get that like this:

<Department>
  <Name>IT</Name>
     <Employee>
      <Name>Bob</Name>
    </Employee>
    <Employee>
      <Name>Jim</Name>
    </Employee>
    <Employee>
      <Name>Mel</Name>
    </Employee>
</Department>

that's mean i want to erase the <Employees> Element

 

how can i fix this?